I am a little worried this isn't what you were looking for. I dove right in and struggled with all of the technical aspects (downloading the audio from a YouTube video, downloading the video of a different YouTube video, cutting each of those, and editing them together) created something I liked, then worried that this wasn't exactly what you're looking for. It's a pretty broad assignment so I thought I'd just turn in what I had created. I read the assignment description and started thinking about what makes me who I am. I started searching for vintage ads or commercials for Disneyland because that is a huge part of my life. I found an old documentary clip about the opening of The Submarine Voyage. I jumped on it because I worked at Disneyland driving submarines in the newer version, The Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage. I actually drove those exact submarines that are in the video, but they have been updated since it originally opened in 1959. This might not be poetry or a song, but Disney culture is something that exists for me and something that I identify with.
The version of Disneyland shown here is extremely different from what I experienced. Safety rules are different. Technology is different. The value of customer satisfaction in relation to profit is different. BUT, my understanding is that the magic is the same: this is a mystical world where people can escape reality.
After I worked at Disneyland, I found a YouTube video an Australian woman had made of her ride on a submarine. Amazingly enough, I was her driver and now have a video of myself driving a sub. I wanted to see what I could do to combine my modern understanding of Disneyland and the historic opening years because there is so much emphasis on tradition and heritage in the Walt Disney Company. The audio in this video is actually me in 2013 and the video is Disneyland in 1959 and the early 60's.
I could use this to give my students opportunities to find correlations between the modern world and the plays we're working on. It could also be used to generate excitement about shows or be some sort of advertisement about our program. Media has growing importance in the theatre world. Even one of the Mask Club performances this semester will be projecting social media throughout the show to give more meaning. My only problem is that I question the legality of what I created and would worry about that with my students. I want to be very aware of the options my students would have if I gave an assignment like this. I would need to give them the tools so hopefully they wouldn't "accidentally" pirate YouTube videos or sound clips.
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